Hebrews 4:14-16 14
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Solus Christus Hebrews 4:14-16
• Mankind Needs a Go-between
Exodus 20:18-19,21 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.� The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Hebrews 9:6-7 The priests go regularly into the first section [of the temple], performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people.
Solus Christus Hebrews 4:14-16
• Mankind Needs a Go-between • Christ is Our Final Mediator
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:9 But we see . . . Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 7:25 [Jesus] is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 4:14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Solus Christus Hebrews 4:14-16
• Mankind Needs a Go-between • Christ is Our Final Mediator • Religious Ritual often Replaces Christ
Solus Christus Hebrews 4:14-16
• Mankind Needs a Go-between • Christ is Our Final Mediator • Religious Ritual often Replaces Christ * human authority
“We declare that it is altogether necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.� - Pope Boniface (1302)
Solus Christus Hebrews 4:14-16
• Mankind Needs a Go-between • Christ is Our Final Mediator • Religious Ritual often Replaces Christ * human authority * sacred ritual
1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all.
Hebrews 9:24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands . . . but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 4:14-16 14
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
John 16:13-14 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 16:8 And when [the Spirit] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: